Improvement in axle-skeins



L- MAYH EW.

Axle Skein.

No. 110.579. Patented Dec.'v 277, 187()I g s Q1 a 1111 l 5 LORENZOMAYHEW, OF SARATOGA SPRINGS, NW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 110,579, dated December 27, 18,70.

IMPROVEMENT IN AXLE-SKEINS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, LORENZOl MAYHEW, of Saratoga Springs, in the countyof Saratoga and State of New York, have vinvented a new and valuableImprovement in Axle-skeins; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clean-and exact description of the construction and operationof the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a partof this specification, and tp the letters and figures of referencemarked thereon Figure]` of the drawing is a representation of a verticallongitudinal section of iny invention.

Figure 2 is aview of the partial skeins. Figure 3 is a detail. Thenature of my invent-ion consists in the construction vof' the small endsof' the sections of the skeins with a connecting-tie marked e on thedrawing, for the purposevof preventing the wooden axle from protrudingtoo far outward.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing.

A represents the Wooden axle7 and B B the skein.

The skein is made in two pieces of steel or .other tionof three andoue-half inches wide to a four-inch the axle by screws; and sometimesacollar, e, may be' driven down upon the shoulder of the axle.

The small ends of the piece'sli B are connected by. the metal plate ortie c, which is secured to each piece B, and let into a channel, a, cutdiametrically across the small end ofthe wooden axle to` receive it.

iVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

The metallic partial skeins B B, connect-ed by the tie c, in combinationwith the wooden axle A, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

" LORENZO MAYHEW.

` Witnesses:

S. H. CRAIG, W. G.WHI1 1 LE.

The broad ends of the pieces B B are secured to

